PlayBox Technology announced the completion of a new television playout system at the Beijing headquarters of StarTimes, one of China’s leading digital broadcast service providers. The system comprises 12 fully redundant AirBox Neo IP streaming channels in a 6 + 6 dual channel configurations to provide full 1:1 backup protection. PlayBox Technology Asia Pacific engineer [...]
StarTimes is a digital TV operator in Africa which serves nearly 10 million subscribers bags WTCR OSCARO tournament. “We are very proud to broadcast the WTCR OSCARO to our African audience. StarTimes is always looking to offer the best sport content and with WTCR OSCARO, African car fans are getting the top competition for touring [...]
The Chinese multinational company, StarTimes, launched direct paid broadcast satellite service, making it the other player in the market besides DStv. Bridgetech Broadcasting & Media Plc, the local exclusive agent of StarTimes, started selling subscriptions to customers last week. StarTimes is based in Beijing and was established in 1988. Bridgetech obtained a license from the Ethiopian Broadcasting [...]
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) says it will soon launch a security services channel as part of a cocktail of programmes planned for digital television broadcasting. ZBC chief executive officer, Patrick Mavhura told hundreds of content producers in Beitbridge that the security channel will be introduced alongside other channels such as wildlife, our country and [...]
French production company Millimages will launch The Adventures of Nasredine, a new animated series for French television network Gulli. The series is expected to bow in September 2019—is the first presale for the Gulli Bil Arabi channel. Gulli Bil Arabi rolled on in 2017 to expand the network’s presence in the Middle East and North Africa market. It [...]
Kwesé TV is set to broadcast the Rugby Africa Gold Cup 2018 live and exclusively on Kwesé Free Sports, Kwesé Sports 1 from June 16 to August 18. Kwesé TV will be using local facility houses to deliver excellent and seamless coverage of the tournament. The CEO of Kwesé Sports, Jeroen Oerlemans commented on this [...]
Two documentaries recorded by the News24 video team is now available on Showmax. According to Jerusha Sukhdeo-Raath, head of video at 24.com, it’s incredibly rewarding to see these original documentaries available for viewing on the local video on demand (SVOD) service. Commenting the development, Sukhdeo-Raath, declared, “They were created by a scrappy team of journalists who – before this [...]
StarTimes Ghana has officially launched its App video streaming service ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Africa’s leading digital TV operator plans to give Ghanaians the opportunity to watch the World Cup on the move anytime and anywhere. To mark the launching of the new service, StarTimes announced that the first 30,000 users can [...]
Ghana Television (GTV) in partnership with Metro TV and Kwesé TV have secured the terrestrial rights (Free to Air) to the 2018 World Cup to be staged from June 14 to July 15 in Russia. The Director of GTV Johnnie Aryeetey declared, “With this right, no other TV station in Ghana can broadcast the World [...]
After years of waiting, the SABC is finally switching its TV channels to high definition (HD) with the South African public broadcaster upgrading the broadcast quality of its channels. SABC1 and SABC3 will both switch from standard definition (SD) to HD from Monday 11 June, with SABC2 that will go HD sometime in July. The [...]
